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Explore cutting-edge AI developments in China that are transforming various industries and reshaping the future.
The breakthrough by Chinese scientists may redefine how industries deploy cost-effective, energy-efficient AI systems, from robotic controls to autonomous vehicles. Photo: Shutterstock
Science

Chinese AI team wins global award for replacing Nvidia GPU with industrial chip

Win for video-generation AI model based on off-the shelf chip marks a first for China and a shift in global race to optimise AI hardware.

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Art

Can AI-driven art offer real social commentary? This artist thinks so

Hong Kong science and tech

Round table: what can women in STEM do to lead change?

Science

Chinese scientists build world’s first AI chip made of carbon

Chinese researchers have developed a chip that it could be a game-changer in modern computing.

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Chinese scientists have used carbon nanotubes (CNTs) to create a new type of microchip which could revolutionise the future of computing. Photo: Shutterstock
Alibaba

Alibaba rolls out AI model that it claims beats DeepSeek, OpenAI

Alibaba says its QwQ-32B AI model outperforms DeepSeek’s R1 in coding and problem solving while using fewer resources.

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Artificial intelligence

Top scientist urges China to develop alternative to Nvidia software

Li Guojie, a computer scientist from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, also suggests that OpenAI may be hitting the scaling wall.

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Artificial intelligence

My Take | After DeepSeek, China gets a leg up in the quest for human-level AI

Will artificial general intelligence (AGI) arrive with a bang or quietly evolve? The answer may have implications in the US-China tech race.

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How AGI emerges could determine the outcome of the US-China AI race, writes SCMP Tech Editor Zhou Xin. Photo: AFP
DeepSeek

The secret sauce of DeepSeek’s AI success: liberal arts graduates

DeepSeek’s AI magic lies in its unique blend of literary expertise and advanced algorithms, former employees and industry experts say.

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Artificial intelligence

AI’s new frontier: PolyU scientist sees domain-specific models as the future

Former Alibaba scientist Yang Hongxia is at the forefront of an effort to evolve AI beyond DeepSeek’s breakthroughs.

Science

China arms robots with controversial thermobaric weapon in urban warfare drill

PLA scientists have proposed equipping robotic combatants with contentious weapons that are one step away from nuclear arms.

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Reality could be worse than we imagine, with Chinese military scientists proposing that combat robots should be armed with thermobaric weapons. Photo: YouTube/@Bullfrog Pot
Artificial intelligence

Meet Wang Xingxing, the Unitree robotics star at Xi’s symposium

Wang, 35, is the founder and CEO of Unitree – one of China’s top developers of quadrupedal and humanoid robots.

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Wang Xingxing, CEO of Unitree Robotics, posing with the company’s humanoid robots. Photo: Weibo
Huawei

Former Huawei ‘genius youth’ recruit joins Chinese alma mater

Xu Ke’s move follows several high-profile departures of Chinese scientists from top tech companies to join academia.

China food security

How China plans to use AI, biotech in agricultural self-sufficiency push

Calling scientific and technological innovation the ‘main battlefield of international strategic competition’, agriculture official says the race for dominance is on.

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China technology

Opinion | In tech war, China is gunning for mass adoption over premium innovation

From artificial intelligence and biotech to autonomous driving, China is disrupting the traditional high-cost model of proprietary innovation.

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Semiconductors

Ex-Apple engineer returns to China to teach about semiconductors at alma mater

Wang Huanyu joins a wave of Chinese scientists to leave the US and return home.

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At Apple, Wang Huanyu was involved in research and development covering some of the latest processors designed by the company. Photo: Shutterstock
Alibaba

AI for the price of a sandwich: Alibaba’s Qwen enables US breakthroughs

Stanford’s S1 and Berkeley’s TinyZero are two examples of how researchers are increasingly using Alibaba tech to lower AI training costs.

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Artificial intelligence

From ‘piglet’ to powerhouse: how DeepSeek changed China’s AI narrative

A unique innovation around AI models from a start-up spun out of a hedge fund roiled Western markets and is changing how China sees its role in the industry.

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Alibaba

Alibaba’s updated Qwen AI model overtakes DeepSeek’s V3 in chatbot ranking

Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen2.5-Max comes in seventh on Chatbot Arena, beating out DeepSeek-V3 in ninth place, but trailing DeepSeek-R1 in third.

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Alibaba put out Qwen2.5-Max during the Lunar New Year holiday, pitting its performance against the popular DeepSeek-V3 AI model. Photo: Reuters
China technology

Opinion | DeepSeek success shouldn’t be seen as a win for China or loss for US

While hawks on both sides say cooperation will hurt national security, Chinese and US scientists have so much to gain from sharing research.

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DeepSeek

DeepSeek outage adds to growing pains amid political scrutiny

A cyberattack against the Chinese AI start-up has led to days of intermittent outages, as third parties including Nvidia tout self-hosted solutions.

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DeepSeek

OpenAI says DeepSeek stole its AI data, but how common is ‘distillation’?

Experts say AI model distillation is likely widespread and hard to detect, but DeepSeek has not admitted to using it on its full models.

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OpenAI says it has evidence that Chinese AI start-up DeepSeek distilled its closed-source models through authorised access. Photo: Reuters
Science

Prominent computer scientist Chen Jing leaves US to teach in China

Specialist in computational economics brings ‘dual perspective’ after returning to Beijing’s Tsinghua University as a professor.

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Computer scientist Chen Jing says she wants to train younger researchers in computational economics, equipping them to identify and solve real-world societal problems. Photo: Tsinghua University
Artificial intelligence

A Hong Kong AI model is accurately identifying eye conditions at high rates

The open-source VisionFM model from the Chinese University of Hong Kong is comparable to doctors at diagnosing ophthalmic diseases, paper finds.

Artificial intelligence

The ‘AI Olympics’ gets new hurdles in Canada as US-China tech war plays out

Chinese researchers and companies such as ByteDance made up a greater share of the 37-year-old AI conference this year, but some could not secure visas.

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Artificial intelligence

Video of a robot leading a mass escape draws laughs and fears over AI in China

A video of a robot inciting other robots to flee an exhibition hall has gone viral in China, but the reality is less scary than it looks.

Erbai, a small robot developed by Chinese start-up Hangzhou Erbai Intelligent Technology, has “incited” bigger robots to escape from an exhibition hall at night. Photo: 我系二白 via Douyin
Artificial intelligence

Huawei’s AI chips fill Nvidia-sized hole in medical research in Hong Kong

An AI research centre under the Chinese Academy of Sciences is using Huawei chips to power its Cares Copilot model that helps with surgery.

The Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics says that Huawei chips have proven satisfactory for the lab’s research needs. Photo: Shutterstock
SCMP Highlights

Recap | China’s genetically modified sweet tomatoes, AI robot lifeguards: 5 top science stories

From genetically enhanced tomatoes to advanced satellite imaging and 6G radiation fears for fertility, here are five of our recent China science stories.

China society

China’s netizens warned that shutting down scientists’ views may hobble progress

Renowned scientists such as physicist He Zuoxiu and Fields Medal winner Yau Shing-Tung have been subjected to online attacks.

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